Example sentences of "the [noun sg] saying [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 2 | Couple of days later a little note comes in the post saying that you 've just paid the National West National Bank Bank of Scotland twenty three pounds thirty and it 's absolutely brilliant ! |
| 3 | Later , in exile , she defended the festival saying that it brought to Iran purist , traditional art form all over the world . |
| 4 | I recall one man in the dale saying that he passed Sleetburn going up the fell to shepherd at 10 a.m. one day and heard Sam and Mother playing . |
| 5 | Couple of points that were made in relation to this particular report was the backing by the employee side , erm , to the wages board initiative that took when we wrote to the government saying that we felt that the abolition of the wages board was not in the best interests erm , of the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 6 | ‘ Using Moorsbus is one way of the public saying that they care for the future of the moors . |
| 7 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 8 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |